Exam question 1 · Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil, the ring and the o…
Which creature was released from a snare by Ciccu?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ciccu · What happens: release · To what, where: creature, snare
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1675 «Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil, the ring and the oven» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 creature | det |
| 2 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 released | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 released | aux:pass |
| 4 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 snare | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 snare | det |
| 7 | snare | snare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 released | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Ciccu | case |
| 9 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 released | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 released | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | release | past · passive | Ciccu | which creature | a snare | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer subject=Source |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
a golden eagle from the mountain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 eagle | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eagle | amod |
| 3 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 mountain | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mountain | det |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eagle | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a falcon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 falcon | det |
| 2 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a wounded hawk with a broken wing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hawk | det |
| 2 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hawk | amod |
| 3 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 wing | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wing | det |
| 6 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 wing | amod |
| 7 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hawk | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
an eagle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 eagle | det |
| 2 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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